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August 05, 2026 at 02:17 AM

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August 05, 2026 at 02:18 AM

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Masterclass: Investing In Gold/Silver Mining Stocks (Part 1)

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  "transcript": "Hey everybody, Don Durrett, Goldstock Data. Um, I decided to create a masterclass, four-part series. I I uh, I have the data to do it, so I decided, might as well. Um, it's going to be free. I'm going to put it on YouTube. So this is going to be part one. So masterclass, Investing in Gold/Silver Mining Stocks, Part 1: Introduction. So, what is my thesis? I think this is a good starting point. So, why do I own gold/silver mining stocks? For only one reason: a disbelief in MMT at its viability. So MMT is Modern Monetary Theory. It's the idea that debt isn't bad, debt's a debt's a feature. And you know, debt isn't necessarily going to bite you in the long run. It's kind of this idea of embracing debt. And I I've always thought it's it's kind of insanity economics. So, I have a simple thesis. You know, is debt expansion a viable economic strategy? And I say no, it's not. And can the national debt continue to grow at 2x GDP? And I say no. So, I don't know exactly when it jumped to two times. I think it was around 2000, could have been earlier than that. Um, I know we had significant growth in the 80s and 90s. And didn't have a huge debt expansion in the 90s. So I I would say it was this century. Um, we just started using debt, um, overwhelmingly, right? And so, final part of my thesis is, is the US economy a house of cards ready to fall? And I say yes. So, that's kind of why I own mining stocks. That's my underlying thesis. Um, can the Fed and US government keep the economy growing? And it's basically through manipulation, right? And most of it is money printing, expanding the money supply. It's also buying out companies that are having trouble. Um, I think it's gotten to the point now where the Fed's actually buying corporate bonds or it's gotten it's we've gotten to a kind of clown world situation. Buying other governments' currencies, funding other other banks internationally. It's a lot of manipulation going on, you know, can they keep doing that and grow the economy? I have a high degree of skepticism for that outcome. Um, I believe that our economic policies are essentially destined to fail. So I am waiting patiently for the debt bubble to pop. It's my contention the Fed is trapped, and they only have two choices. They can either fight inflation or stimulate the economy, and they can't do both. And whatever choice they make creates a crisis in the other. So, it's kind of a classic Catch-22. Um, if they fight inflation, then the economy's going to go down potentially, because they're lack of QE if you will. And if they stimulate the economy through money printing, then they create inflation. And so, it's also, not only is it a Catch-22, but it's also a debt doom-loop. So, if they fight inflation, then they're not going to be printing a lot of money. Um, and that's going to cause the economy to go down, and and if the economy goes down, they're going to have less money for the debt, so the the bond market will weaken if you will. Um, so if basically if they fight economy, they create potentially weaken the economy, which will weaken the bond market, which is going to create hurt kind of hurt the debt hurt the bond market, create kind of this debt doom-loop. The other side is if they stimulate the economy, then they're going to print more money, which is going to expand the debt bubble, which creates a doom-loop as well, and it's kind of circular. So, fewer foreigners want to own our debt, and more people want to sell the debt. So that the debt, you know, we're at $40 trillion now, borrowing a trillion dollars a year. So, that debt bubble just keeps getting worse and worse, which is kind of the doom-loop. So, my thesis is that the only reason to own gold and silver miners is because of this debt bubble MMT thesis. And it's just a matter of like I said, a house of cards ready to fall. When does this thing actually burst? Um, and I think we're getting really close to that outcome. So, this is my overall thesis. So it's kind of a it's an idea. So we're not we're not really investing um kind of a normal, this is more speculating. So it's kind of my I'm speculating on a thesis and and we'll get there. Um, what drives gold prices? Negative real rates will drive gold prices, absolutely. Um, and so negative real rates is when inflation is kind of overwhelming the interest rates. You're not making any money. You're losing money, um, if you have put money in right now money market funds. You're getting back about three or four three to four percent, and inflation's higher than that, um, then you have negative real rates. Real rates is when you're making more money. So, let's say inflation is at 2%, and you have 4%, that would be positive real rates. So negative real rates good for gold. However, 2002 to 2007, real rates were positive, and gold did well. So negative real rates are not always always, um, going to work for you. It's not So, from my perspective, yeah, okay, it works sometimes, but it doesn't always work. In 2024, 2020 2024 and 2025, gold was absolutely ripping higher, you know, $1,000 a year. Guess what? Real rates were positive. So, negative real rates are not the be all end all for what's driving what's driving gold prices. The next one that people look at is the US dollar. But in 2024, the dollar was strong, 104, but gold didn't care. It was going up. Same thing 2025, gold was at 101, the dollar was at 101, which I think is a strong level. I would say 100 and above is strong, below 100 is is somewhat weak. And you really even at 98, I don't think it's a real weak dollar. If you look around the world at what the dollar can buy here, the dollar's right now at 99, and the dollar's strong. Um, if you go to Japan today, um, the dollar goes a long way. You go to Europe today, it goes a long way. So the dollar is not weak. And so we've had a strong dollar for the last two years, and gold went up. So, the DXY, yeah, if the DXY goes down, that's absolutely good for gold. But a strong dollar, um, is supposed to hurt gold, and it hasn't. What really drives a gold price is economic fear, economic uncertainty. So, and and we can look back at the two gold bull markets. 1971 to 1980, gold went from $35 to $850. It went up 23x. Guess what we had in the in that decade? We had a lot of uncertainty. We had a lot of stock market languishing. Um, so this is when gold does well. And we haven't really had this yet. Um, the last time we had it in 2011. And and so from 2012 till today, yeah, there's a little bit of economic fear, but not a lot. Um, we haven't we haven't had a recession since 2009. So, we're waiting for this to come back. We know that if you have economic fear, if you have economic uncertainty to a large extent, gold does extremely well. Um, from 2001 to 2011, gold went up six times. That's so today gold's at $4,000. Can you imagine go up six times, $24,000? I don't think it will, but some people think it could go to 15. Um, and it probably will go to 10. Um, which is a two and a half rise. Um, but if you go to 2000, at $2,000 gold, 6x, which is kind of what we got from 2001 to 2011. And you could say that gold actually broke out around 1150. I mean, 1500, excuse me, not 1150, 1500. So, 1500 to 12,000 is actually more than the last bull market of 2001. But bottom line, what drives gold prices is is fear and uncertainty. Which investment strategy? There's really only three strategies. The first strategy is the long-term investor, which is 80% about around 80% of investors are this way. They want steady compounding. They want to constantly make money. They want to make, you know, their goal is annual returns and right around market returns or market returns are better. So you're looking at approximately 10% a year. You just want to compound that over 50 years. So this is the standard methodology. This doesn't really work well for my thesis. The next one is a trader, and about 20% of your investors trade to a certain extent. They're they're not comfortable just, you know, doing the steady compounding. They want they want to go for some short-term opportunities. They want to outperform the market. Some people are day traders. Some people trade, you know, once a week, once a month, once a quarter, kind of thing. But about 20% are kind of, um, combination of long-term and trader. Um, these are not when it says 20% trader, that's not all all they do is trade. Um, but, um, trading is more technical analysis. Speculator is is not trading, it's more high conviction. And so I'm I showed you why do I invest in gold? That's a high conviction idea. Some people can have high convictions on other types, like semiconductors, um, copper, commodities, oil. Those can be, you know, high conviction ideas, and people can put kind of concentrated bets. So, the goal here on number three on the speculator is asymmetrical upside. You want to find a high conviction, where you feel like the downside is somewhat limited, and the upside is very high, very asymmetrical. That's kind of the goal of a speculator. You're not, you know, these aren't you're not trying to do lottery picks per se, but in the mining, some some people sometimes we do a little bit of that. But we're trying to get an edge here. And one of my, um, part three or something is is how to get an edge. Um, and for speculators do both long-term and short-term ideas. So my high conviction idea is not a short-term, I'm long-term. I'm waiting for that bubble to burst. It could burst in 12 months, it could burst in 48 months. So, we are my approach is I'm a speculator, but not for the short-term. It's for my idea of the bubble bursting, of MMT failing. When, I don't know, but I I'm always I'd go two to four years, two to five years. But I think we're getting closer now. So, the asymmetric edge. This is what we're trying to find. Um, this is why we're doing the gold. As we we we have the idea, gold and silver mining stocks. We're not talking about physical metal, by the way. Physical metal is an asset. We're talking about mining stocks here. So, the asymmetrical edge, you know, the downside risk versus the upside return. So, for me, I think that gold has a floor. Today we're about $4,100 gold. I think the floor is around $4,000. Maybe it goes to $3,500. I'm thinking $3,750. But we're right around I think we're around the floor. But the upside is somewhere, I think, around $10,000. Um, so you can put a range $8,000 to $12,000, somewhere in there for this cycle high. Um, that's massive because the leverage in the miners is huge if you get to say $8,000 gold in this in this cycle. We don't know when the cycle's going to end. I think the cycle will go through 28. Could go through 29 and 30. Some people think it'll actually go into the 30s, 31, 32. Um, that that would be that would be a really long bull market. Um, so, there's kind of your how I look at it. That that's kind of the asymmetrical speculation. Risk-reward. So, if gold is rising in the next 24 to 36 months, Um, I think that there's a high probability of that outcome. So, we're looking at an asymmetrical bet. Um, it basically it comes down to, remember I said about uncertainty? Uncertainty is what drives gold prices. So, what is the risk of a recession over the next 12 to 24 months? I I if so you compare these two, I think the risk of recession is quite high. Some people think, oh no, we're just going to this thing's just going to go forever, Don. Um, I'm not I think that's the outcome. So, if we do go into recession, gold going up is the logical outcome. So gold is the big winner there if we have a recession. The second one is, does the US government have any budget problems? And I think if we go into recession, I think the answer to that is true. And if they have budget problems, and what I mean by budget problem is, can they spend what they need to spend, or do they need to cut? Any cutting is going to hurt the economy. And then the last one is the bond market. And do they have any bond problems? And I think if we go into recession, I do think they will have bond problems. Um, and it's going to get really messy, I believe. So, from an asymmetrical standpoint, if you have a high conviction, right, high conviction idea is that the economy's going to get worse, then that's the case, what the odds are high that we go into recession, some of these really ugly things could happen, um, budget problems, bond problems. So, now we're looking at kind of the asymmetrical side of this thing. If if gold rises to $7,000 or higher in the next 24 to 36 months, or silver rises to $200+ in the next 24 to 36 months, the asymmetrical upside is massive for the miners versus the downside. So, let's say there is opportunity cost if the miners don't go up, and you you put your money there, maybe it's flat, maybe you make a little bit of money, but maybe you could have made more money elsewhere, like say oil, or copper, or some other some other places, stock market, semiconductors. So, there's always that opportunity cost per se. But the chances are that gold will trend higher a little bit. So, you can make a little bit money, or you can make a a lot of money, depending on how high gold goes over the next 24 to 36 months. I see it I think it's a very positive asymmetrical bet. But again, assumption on my part. That's it. That's the end of Part 1. So that was kind of an introduction. Um, introduction to investing in gold and silver mining stocks, how I approach it. And, uh, we'll do three three more parts to this. So the first one, of course, is I need to save my transcript. Now I can stop it. Okay, I'll see you guys in Part 2.",
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